From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:52:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160322215232.GK4083@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160322212931.GQ11812@dastard>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:29:31AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> If you want additional seekable data streams, then come up with a
> filesystem namespace method of addressing these alternate data
> streams as *separate files containing data*. That's all an ADS is -
> a namespace hack to address multiple data files through a single
> file name. That's the problem that needs solving and it has nothing
> to do with xattrs.
There was some thread about this years ago. Looking... "silent semantic
changes with reiser4" or "possible design issues for hybrids" look like
the relevant threads.
One good starting point might be:
http://mid.gmane.org/20040826212853.GA21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Don't know how out of date that might be now.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 18:11 Making an interface for alternative data streams Richard Yao
2016-03-21 18:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-21 18:51 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 19:17 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 20:19 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 20:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-21 22:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-03-21 22:48 ` Cedric Blancher
2016-03-22 0:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 1:02 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 2:21 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 16:15 ` Richard Sharpe
2016-03-22 20:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 20:13 ` Richard Sharpe
2016-03-22 20:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 21:42 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 4:13 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 4:19 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 14:45 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 17:01 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 17:16 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 15:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 2:01 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 21:29 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 21:52 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2016-03-22 22:50 ` Dave Chinner
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